158: Forensic Breakthrough: Charles Stielow - Comparison Microscope

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A farmer and his friend are shot dead on the farmer's property. Suspicion falls on his newly hired farmhand, who is arrested along with his brother in law. They're convicted on ballistics evidence which showed that the bullets could only have been fired from the suspect's gun. However, later a new suspect emerges causing the case to be revisited. On further inspection, the bullets weren't properly inspected at all, leading to the invention of a new tool.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"
Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"
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Sources:

Charles Stielow - National Registry of Exonerations Pre 1989 (umich.edu)
Forensic Science (edinboro.edu)
New Algorithm Examines Crime-Scene Bullets Segment by Segment (forensicmag.com)
Convicting the Innocent - Stielow and Green (vots.altervista.org)
Herald Democrat March 28, 1917 — Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre - Victims, Evidence & Suspects - HISTORY
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Al Capone—Excerpt from Get Capone – Chicago Magazine

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0:00.0	Hey, Delectables, right before we get into this episode, Lindsay and I actually got confirmation
0:07.2	about something huge that is happening with Corpus Delicti.
0:11.0	You heard it in the last episode. We kind of mysteriously alluded to something we'd been working on,
0:17.7	and you will hear that again in this episode. So now we've gone back and inserted this. You all know that our next series is going to be about Alabama
0:26.4	crimes. Well, we are actually going to kick it off in a really big way, the biggest way that we
0:32.6	ever have. We actually have a mini series within this bigger series that we are going to be doing.
0:41.6	It is a deep dive, which we have never really done before.
0:45.9	It is also an advocacy project.
0:48.8	So basically what's going on is we are covering a story about an intellectually disabled man here in Alabama who is on death row.
0:58.8	And he, we believe, along with many, many, many others that he is innocent.
1:05.7	And we have had the opportunity to not only get court documents, talk to people, and we are going to let
1:14.2	you hear some of these conversations. This is deeper than we have ever been before, and we are
1:20.5	going to try to raise awareness for this gentleman. Stay tuned because in about maybe the next episode after this, you're going to hear
1:30.1	the entire story of how it all went down.
1:33.4	And then the next episodes are our steps into helping free this innocent man.
1:39.9	Yeah, his last hope is the governor of Alabama.
1:42.5	So we want to make sure that this is on her radar, that she knows about it.
1:46.6	She's reviewing this case.
1:48.3	And we want to see if we can help.
1:50.2	We are spreading the word heavily on this.
1:53.0	We are making a promo for this.
1:54.7	So we will actually play it at some point in this episode so you guys can hear and get some further details.
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